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Jeffrey Leath is interviewed about Richard Allen and his conversion to
Christianity and the conversion of his owner, the role of spirituality in
everyday life, Richard Allen's mission to share his religious experience,
the beginning of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia,
Christianity as a means to deal with slavery, Philadelphia during the Yellow
Fever outbreak of 1793 and accusations of African Americans for impropriety,
Philadelphia during the Federalist period, Richard Allen's loss of his land
and repurchase, Mother Bethel Church and the Liberty Pulpit, Richard Allen's
sermons, the conversion of Jarena Lee, longing for The Promised Land.